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aid of a good glass, the stellate tomentum that so closely envelopes this 
singular plant presents a most curious and interesting appearance. We 
have collected this Hymenophyllum in the bush above Port Levy and Pigeon 
Bay, sometimes growing in company with a small form of H. bivalve. 
Rhizome slender, creeping, rough, fulvous, with a few scattered tawny 
scales, or hairy. Stipe, base gibbous, tomentose, long, slender, 2-8 inches 
long; upper portion immediately below the rachis densely tomentose. 
Fronds pendent, narrow-oblong, 2-6 inches long, 1-14 inches broad, 
bi- tri- or quadripinnatifid; covered above and beneath with a close 
tomentum; upper surface greyish-green to buff, dull reddish-brown 
beneath. Divisions long, narrow, almost terete; sori terminal on the 
segments, clothed with shaggy hairs, rather dark bufüsh-brown ; the whole 
frond coriaceous, stiff, rather harsh to the touch. 
In the “ Synopsis Filicum" it is placed next to a South American fern, 
H. sericum, with which it is said to be closely connected. In Hooker's 
“ Handbook of the New Zealand Flora" it was grouped with Trichomanes. 
Trichomanes venosum, Br. | 
On the rhizome of Todea hymenophylloides ; on the stems of tree-ferns, 
such as Hemitelia smithii, Dicksonia squarrosa ; in the bushes of Banks 
Peninsula, including the Port Hills. 
Cystopteris fragilis, Bern. 
On grassy terraces near the gorge of the Rakaia river; in Mount Guy 
valley in the Upper Ashburton district ; River Havelock, Upper Rangitata ; 
on the lower spurs of Mount Herbert, Banks Peninsula. Altitude of 
habitat varying from 500 feet to about 2,500 feet. 
Adiantum diaphanum, Blume. (?). 
In the gorge of the Rakaia river the writer collected an Adiantum which 
is probably 4. diaphanum. It differs somewhat from the diagnosis given in 
Hooker’s and Baker's * Synopsis Filicum.” Should it prove to be 4. 
diaphanum, this subalpine habitat is worth recording. The rock from 
whence it was taken is about 900 feet above sea-level. Stipe slender, 
polished, blackish, 3-4 inches long.  Frond—4-6 inches long, 1-14 
inches broad; simply pinnate, rarely with one feeble branch at the 
base; pinnules }-1 inch broad, 1-i inch deep; lower margin decurved ; 
upper and outer line cuneate, texture thin, surface on both sides naked. 
Sori few, not contiguous. 
Pellea falcata, Br. 
Amongst dry rocks, in bushy ravines, on slopes of Dun Mountain, 
Nelson. 
Lomaria duplicata, Potts, 
. Qn referring specimens of this fern to the authorities at Kew, it was 
